common garden cress

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   annual herb used as salad green and garnish

   Synonymsgarden pepper cresspepper grasspepperwortLepidium sativum

   Broadercress

   Part ofLepidium

   Partsgarden cress

Questions about common garden cress

What does common garden cress mean?

common garden cress means "annual herb used as salad green and garnish".

What is another word for common garden cress?

Close synonyms include garden pepper cress, pepper grass, pepperwort, Lepidium sativum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common garden cress a common word?

common garden cress is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.